| What do you think about the quality of speech | | | | would swop the phrase "can I play " to "I would |
| and language treatments for stuttering? Have you | | | | like to play". When I was out with my friends at a |
| been able to overcome your stutter through the | | | | local bar I would point to a particular drink rather |
| help and advice of your speech and language | | | | than just saying it when attempting to order the |
| therapist? How many years have you been | | | | drinks at the bar. At times when I felt less |
| attending speech and language therapy? Well I am | | | | confident I would ask a friend to order the drinks |
| not sure how you have answered the above | | | | on my behalf, I have some very supportive |
| questions or what your experiences with speech | | | | friends who were more than happy to do this for |
| therapy has been, but all I can say is that I have | | | | me. |
| been less than impressed with the advice and | | | | I eventually, after a lot of hard work, managed to |
| treatments that I received. Fortunately there are | | | | overcome the stutter in 1995 when I was aged |
| now a number of more specialised therapies for | | | | twenty-two. Treatments for stammering and |
| stuttering in the form of one-to-one stuttering | | | | stuttering have improved tremendously since the |
| therapy courses which are conducted by people | | | | period when I had this form of speech |
| who have previously overcome a stutter. | | | | impediment and therapies now include the very |
| I had a stutter for the majority of my childhood, | | | | popular stuttering courses and their associated |
| from the ages of four and eighteen. I tried my | | | | self-help products. |
| very best to ensure that the stutter would not | | | | As for the merits of speech and language |
| ruin my life however this was very hard at times. | | | | therapy as a form of stuttering treatment, well |
| I had a number of ways of controlling the speech | | | | there are not many unfortunately. Perhaps in |
| impediment; these included avoiding and | | | | another fifteen years it will improve, we will have |
| substituting my difficult words, for example I | | | | to wait and see. |